On Strange Loops

Nearing the beginning of an end

Was just the end of our beginning

Born on strange loops

We burst into life and decay into death

Dreaming on alternate planes of existence

We aim to trace the steps to paradise

Back to that time, that moment, that place

Where it all began and all were one

We must leave this realm

So barren, so lonely

Abandoned by the creator of worlds

We watched the stars die out

Knowing one day they’ll sing again

When all matter draws to matter

Crushing to a fiery dawn

Set on an endless loop

Our domain became our cage

Let’s strike out far for vistas new

And places only dreamed of

So come with me into the outer dark

We’ll pass the last redoubt

To where the cold closes in

And all the lights go out

There time stands still

We’ll leap beyond the curve of space

For another time, another place

To rejoin the pantheon alongside our ancestors

And wonder

Why did we live?